HP Benchmarks SQL Server 2005 Scalability on TPC

SQL Server 2005 got its first independently audited public scalability test this week when Hewlett-Packard posted results of a run of the database against the Transaction Processing Performance Council's TPC-C and TPC-H benchmarks

Paragraph 2 has the most interesting point:<br /><br />"SQL Server 2005, which will launch the week of Nov. 7"<br /><br />This is the first I have heard of a launch date - does anyone know if this is official?? I was beginning to expect a re-branding to SQL Server 2006 <img src='/community/emoticons/emotion-5.gif' alt='' /><br /><br />